Towards Wednesday regarding afternoon I took a walk in this new profession, It had been to carry my curage dwon, But nonetheless I became obligated to produce: To have around We confronted by an excellent bobtail'd lass, But I ought to features introduced their because of the, And that i kindly got their unique because of the hand, An i direct their own toward kye. The newest pettycoat one she had to the Is made of blanket blue, The fresh new smock is actually due to the fact black colored just like the charcole, Trust me this is correct; However, enticing conditions, often tempt younger wild birds, Those of the colony do travel, And you will I'll never believ't is actually the very first time One to she got been trapped from the kye. An excellent council, a great guy, We promote, For your requirements, young buck, I provide, Never ever get with a good bob-tail'd lass As long as you have one hour to call home. You had beter grab one that's proper and you may tall, In the event she be never so terrible, For I never ever is so disgraced within my lives As i is by this bob-tail'd whoore.

From Farmer’s ‘Merry Songs’, and there away from James Maidment’s ‘Ane Lovely Garland from Nice Fragrant Flowers’, 1835, to what is becoming NLS MS Adv. 19.step one.thirteen f. 42.

Part 3, English Tunes

It absolutely was a good maide off my personal countre As she came by an effective hathorne-tre Just like the packed with plants, since the might be viewed, She merveld to help you se the fresh new tre so grene

The new tre housemaid answere by and by: “I have a great causse to growe triumphantly; The new swetest dew you to definitely actually ever be sene Doth slide toward myself and you can kepe my personal grene.

“Yea ,” quothe the newest maid, “but in which thou growe, Thou stande on hande for each blowe, Of every guy to possess to be noticed; We mervaile that thou growe therefore grene.”

“No matter if many-one get flowers regarding me, & manye an effective branche out-of my personal tre, I’ve for example shop, they wyll not sene, For lots more & my personal tredges growe grene.”

“But exactly how, in addition they chaunce to cut the newest downe And you will carry thie braunches to the towne? Upcoming usually they never ever no more be sene To enhance againe very freshe & grene.”

“Thoughe which you create, yt ys zero boote, Withoute it cut us to the fresh roote; Second yere againe I’m sene To bude my personal branches freshe and you can grene.”

“And also you, fair maide, canne perhaps not exercise; Getting yf Anderlecht hot girl you let you are maidhode goe, Then commonly yt never ever no further become sene Whenever i that have my braunches can also be growe grene.”

The fresh new maide with this begane in order to blushe, And you may turned their own about hathorne bushe. She think herdelffe very effectuer & clene, Their own bewtie styll would actually growe grene.”

With several an effective sighe she ran their waye, To help you se howe she maide their particular mind so gay, To walke, so you can se, and also to be sene, A keen very aside-experienced the latest hathorne grene

Just what that have she harde which glorious dowbte, She stepped styll after that all the aboute; Suspecting nonetheless just what she’d wene, Their own maidheade destroyed could not get noticed.

Along with all that yt set their unique inside the feare To help you talke which have companye anye where, Getting feare to lose the thing that shuld be sene In order to develop since were the hathorn grene.

However, next never I am able to here For the faire mayden any place, That ever before she was a student in forest sene, To help you talke againe of your own hathorne grene. Grams. Poete [Peele?]

The new date in the concerns the same as L. Lloyd’s track stated below. Text message regarding BL MS Thread Vesp. Good.twenty-five, thru K. Boeddeker’s post ‘Englische Lieder und auch Balladen aus dem 16. Jahrhundert’, Jahrbuch fur romanische und englische Sprache , Letter. F. II, 1875. Expurgated and you will incomplete in the Chappell’s PMOT. The brand new date associated with ballad is probably period sooner than L. Lloyd’s song above. A classic adaptation obtained versus song, on 1825, try “The new Hawthorn Eco-friendly”, p. cuatro into the Elizabeth. B. Lyle’s Andrew Crafurd’s Collection of Ballads and you can Musical 1975. A negative traditional veresion that i think are discovered of Chappell’s PMOT, are “The fresh new Hawthorn Bush”, p. 15 when you look at the Fred Hammer’s Garners Gay , EFDSS, 1968.